Sopwith Camel

[60buick]

Hide your Fokkers, Albatros and Taubes. My camel is on the prowl. ;)Shes a Hanger 9 Sopwith camel and I recovered it to reflect Arthur Gould Lees plane of the fighting 46th. He wrote letters to his wife in England everyday describing in painstaking detail his missions and daily life. They were later published into a book called "No Parachute". The best most factual account of a WW1 pilots life ever written. He did go up against Barron Von Richtofen's flying circus more than once and decribes being shot down, shooting down others and watching planes fall from the sky from above. An awesome book but very expensive and hard to find now.


The plane has an OS 91 4 stroke, full pilot and C_O_C_Kpit. I have also added all the rigging omitted by H9 and used a Pull-Pull cable system to all the control surfaces. You won't find any control horns on this plane. Sounds very scale in the air and flys very scale.

[SCC]

Hi buick.

Gret looking plane. Any chance of seeing some vid of it flying??

Pilot looks mean!! ;D

[mrmugen]

Very cool plane! I bet it is prettier in person. Nice job! I'm with SCC on the "get some video if possible".

[raspa]

Wow that's a real beauty
Hangar 9 is known here as to be one the best r/c products brand delivering high quality models...... this been said you did a great job..
I only regret the glow motor choice
What's the weight of your Camel isn'it possible to eletrify this jewel

Cheers

Raspa

[60buick]

They make the brushless electric motor an option for the camel. I can't see why you would want to electrify such a large plane though.

A large rough running 4 stroke sounds just like a minature Le Rhone 9J rotory engine at low to mid range RPM and the flight times are about 20 minutes then land add some fuel and off you go again. The exsaust dumps underneath so there is no oil residue on the plane. I can swing a much larger wooden prop which is closer to the scale size. Plenty of power and not very exspensive.

A large electric version would be almost twice as exspensive with only 1 battery. It would fly for 10 minutes and cool for another 20 then charge for 1 hr. No sound or smoke and a smaller prop. The plane would be heavier. I couldn't have a full co-ckpit because of where the batteries sit. Large Lipoly batteries can be very dangerous if you are not very careful with them.

Electric has a lot of benifits in the right plane but I only use it in the smaller ones. The batteries are cheap enough to have several for repeated flights so flight time is similar. Small glow engines can be contankerous at times, electric power is just a flick of the switch. Small glow planes get oily while electric is clean. You can't beat the sound of the right 4 stroke. i think the Saitos sound the best. I have an unmuffled saito 1.00 4 stroke in my P-40 that will make you drool and I am putting a pair of Saito 3 cylinder Radials in my B-25. They sound unbelievable!